'Ecce Bellum' : Garshin's "Four Days"
- Vsevolod Garshin's "Four Days" is the story of a wounded soldier left for dead on a deserted battlefield: During four days of physical and mental agony, he reassesses his formerly idealistic attitude towards war and ends up condemning it as something far from glorious and noble. However, the importance of Garshin's short story in literary history is not so much its anti-war message as the innovative nature of the form used to convey that message. Garshin was the first to explore the potential of direct interior monologue (hereinafter: DIM): a technique which seeks to create the artistic illusion that the reader is eavesdropping on a character's inner discourse without any mediation on the part of a narrator [...]. Because Garshin's text anticipated many of the devices later used by such masters of the genre as James Joyce and William Faulkner, the form of "Four Days" merits close analysis.
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| Author: | Vladimir Tumanov |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-363996 |
| ISBN: | 1-902949-03-x |
| Parent Title (English): | Vsevolod Garshin at the turn of the century : an international symposium in three volumes |
| Publisher: | Northgate Press [u.a.] |
| Place of publication: | Oxford |
| Editor: | Peter Henry, Mikhail Girshman, Vladimir Porudominsky |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2000 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/12/30 |
| GND Keyword: | Garšin, Vsevolod M. / Četyre dnja; Innerer Monolog |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 127 |
| Last Page: | 145 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 387530258 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.10.00 Stilistik. Rhetorik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
